BigEndian Semiconductors has raised $6 million in a pre Series A funding round led by IAN Alpha Fund, with participation from existing investors Vertex Ventures SEA and India, IvyCap Ventures, and strategic angel investors.
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Prior to this, the Bengaluru based startup had secured $3 million in a seed funding round from Vertex Ventures in August 2024.
The proceeds will be used to commercialise its first system on chip SoC, scale product engineering, and strengthen partnerships across foundries, IP ecosystems, and OEMs, the company said in a press release.
Co founded in March 2024 by Sunil Kumar, Renuka Prasad, Dinesh Annayya, Kanagaraju Ponnusamy, and Jansen Cheng, BigEndian Semiconductors is a fabless semiconductor startup building secure, high performance SoCs designed in India for global applications. The startup focuses on developing silicon platforms for surveillance, telecom, IoT, and enterprise systems.
BigEndian integrates hardware and software with expertise in VLSI, system architecture, and embedded software. It is developing trusted silicon solutions for both national security and commercial use cases.
Building fabless semiconductors requires long term capital, deep technical expertise, and a high tolerance for early stage risk, areas where India’s ecosystem is still evolving. As global supply chains diversify, the company is navigating complex design, verification, and tape out cycles while building original silicon IP.
With strategic partnerships across Taiwan and India, BigEndian is working to support end to end semiconductor innovation from architecture and tape out to product launch.
Major players in this space include Netrasemi, L&T, Mindgrove, and Novatek.